Nahid Angha


Nahid Angha is an Iranian-American Sufi scholar, author, lecturer and human rights activist, with a focus on women's rights. She is the co-director and co-founder of the International Association of Sufism, founder of the International Sufi Women Organization, the executive editor of Sufism: An Inquiry. Nahid Angha is the main representative of the IAS to the United Nations.

Biography

Nahid Angha is the daughter of Persian Sufi master Moulana Shah Maghsoud Sadiq Angha the Sufi master of the Uwaiysi lineage. Her mother, Mah Talat Etemad Moghadam, was from a prominent Persian family, and a descendant of Etemad Saltaneh. Angha pursued academic studies at the University of Tehran, Missouri State University, and University of Exeter. She holds doctorate degrees in Psychology and Islamic Studies, and taught as adjunct professor at the Dominican University of California and California Institute of Integral Studies. She created the Building Bridges of Understanding series program with the Dominican University of California that hosted many prominent speakers including the Iranian Nobel Prize winner, Shirin Ebadi.

Selected publications

Shah Maghsoud: Life and Legacy.
  • "" in Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three.
  • Shah Maghsoud. Nirvan. Translation with Commentary .A Force Such as the World Has Never Known: Women Creating Change.
  • Mir Ghotbeddin Muhammad Angha, Destination: Eternity: az janin ta janan, Translation.Caravan: Biographies from Sufism Symposia 1994-2014.
  • Ansari, Abdullah. ‘Abdu’llāh Ansāri of Herāt, Stations of the Sufi Path: The One Hundred Fields: Sad Maydān.Ecstasy: The World of Sufi Poetry and Prayer.Sufism: The Journey of the Lovers.Principles of Sufism.Shah Maghsoud, Psalms of Gods: Avaz-i Khodayan, Payam-I dill: A Meditation, translation with commentary.The Journey: Seyr va Soluk.Selections: Poems from Khayyam, Rumi, Hafiz, Shah Maghsoud.Deliverance: Words of the Prophet.The Nature of Miracle.
  • Shah Maghsoud. Diwan-I ghazal.
  • Shah Maghsoud, Manifestations of Thought .
  • Nagah. Tahshi’-i bar Padidehay-i fikr. Tehran: Maktab-e-tariqat-e-Oveyssi Shah Maghsoudi, 1979).